The 21st Reyner Banham Memorial Lecture will be given by Alice Frideman on American Glamour, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and Mid-century Modern Architecture at the Royal College of Art on Friday 5 March.

The lecture will examine key works by prominent mid-century American architects, addressing not only the social, cultural and economic forces that shaped these important buildings and interiors, but also the impassioned critical debates they engendered, including some of Reyner Banham's most brilliant and insightful essays.

Alice Friedman is the Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the history of Amercian Art at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She is also a visiting Professor at the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston university. Her publications include Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History (1998).

For enquiries, 020 7590 4482 or laura.collins@rca.ac.uk